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What happens when a girl's private feelings become a window into the mysteries of growing up?
In A Young Girl's Diary, an unnamed girl in Vienna records life from about eleven to fourteen. Parents, teachers, schoolwork and friendships fill her days. On the page, anger, crushes and fears sit beside sharp judgments of adults. As her body changes, she tries to understand feelings she cannot yet name.
The diary also invites a different kind of curiosity: what can childhood feelings reveal about the adult mind? This question lies at the heart of early psychoanalysis in Vienna. Alongside the narrator's everyday concerns, you encounter the interests of thinkers who look to childhood for clues to how people think and feel.
What you’ll discover
- Everyday life in Vienna Enter a world of schoolwork, family tensions, teachers and friendships that form and fade.
- Feelings without clear names Follow the shift from games and rivalry toward love, bodily curiosity and unfamiliar emotions.
- Adults through a child's eyes Meet parents and teachers through a young narrator's anger, fears and sharp personal judgments.
- A mind under scrutiny Explore why early psychoanalysts look to childhood feelings for clues to the adult mind.
- Friendships that change Follow the friends she makes and loses as her interests and feelings begin to shift.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy true-feeling diaries, family life in old Vienna, school friendships and the sharp, funny voice of a girl who notices everything.
What’s inside
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- Two friends promise to write every day
- A summer crush ends with a hard kick
- Half-told facts of life pass between friends
- School brings idols and rivals into view
- Hella speaks up for a shunned classmate
- Go-between for Dora's secret romance
- Friends dream of stages, lieutenants and titles
- Mother's illness changes the whole household
- A diary of secrets, double meanings and loyalty
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Journal d’une jeune fille
by Anonyme; Cedar Paul (traducteur); Eden Paul (traducteur) · 1919
Grete hides her diary pages from her sister while a friend swaps secrets with her in Vienna.
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What does a girl hide in her diary when her sister snoops? Grete, called Rita by her best friend Hella, starts writing at eleven, just before a holiday in Tyrol.
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Two friends promise to write every day
The diary opens in July with an entrance exam passed and a promise made. Grete and her friend Hella agree to keep diaries when they start high school. They give each other new names, Rita and Hella, because their real ones sound vulgar to them.
The first holiday in Tyrol shows the household. Her older sister Dora claims the veranda and the arbor, and Grete refuses to be driven off. Father is fair and says the verandas belong to everyone, while Mother, Grete feels, favors Dora. Letters from Hella arrive often, and Grete writes pages that blow away in the wind.
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What is A Young Girl's Diary about?
It follows a Viennese girl named Grete, called Rita by her friend Hella, from age eleven to fourteen and a half. She writes about school, family quarrels, friendships, crushes and grief, and what she learns from the people around her.
Who are Hella and Dora in the diary?
Hella is Grete's best friend and confidante, the person she trusts most. Dora is Grete's older sister, who teases her, keeps her own secrets and shares a room with her.
Is A Young Girl's Diary a true story?
It is presented as the diary of a real girl in Vienna, set in the years of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The text is anonymous and covers four school years, written in a single lively voice.
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